EVALUAREA IN PROIECTAREA CURRICULARĂ INVERSĂ
ASSESSMENT IN BACKWARD COURSE DESIGN

Author(s): Iuliana Lungu
Subject(s): Education, School education, Pedagogy
Published by: Editura Eikon
Keywords: backward design; curriculum; assessment; active learning experience;
Summary/Abstract: The underlying principle of the present paper is the active learning supported by various strategies, methods and techniques for empowering students to develop their critical thinking and participate in directing their own knowledge acquisition. In this sense, backward course design creates the illustrative framework for an innovative pedagogy by planning assessment first, then the learning experience and teaching activities, having in view the main goal, i.e. students' understanding of the big ideas (the moral of the story of the course/learning unit), which can then be autonomously transferred to other real-world learning contexts. The basic rationale of this paper is to present the instructional model of backward course design of learning experiences, highlighting assessment modalities. To construct an authentic assessment, we employed with the students at our university the GRASPS model, a form of assessment that engages learners to use their thinking skills and demonstrate the application of essential knowledge, conceptual understanding and skills acquired throughout a unit of learning.

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